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Unseeded Ella Pashley, still a cadet, who won her group went through the tournament winning every match
she played. In the positional matches she overcame Lauren Loosemore, Saskia Key, Megan Jones, Rebecca
Savage and finally Mya Sultan to win the tournament. Sultan too, played above her ranking beating fourth
seed, Tiana Dennison, fifth ranked player Sara Williams, second seed Erin Green and unseeded Rachael Iles
before losing against Pashley in her final match. It was also a successful tournament for Iles who finished third
and success too to fourth placed Rebecca Savage who had earlier defeated the number one seed, Anna Green.
The other players who went through to the National Championships were Anna Green, Erin Green, Anaya
Patel, Megan Jones, Mabel Shute, Naomi Coker, Sara Williams, Saskia Key, Mia Lakhani, Lisa Rinnhofer, Ella
Barnard and Stefania Popa.
Ella Pashley, Mya Sultan, Rachael Iles, Rebecca Savage, Anna Green
Photo of Rachael Iles courtesy of Graham Trimming, other photos courtesy of Pawel Meryn
Criteria for the National Championships
Men and Women’s Singles: Qualifying event: restricted to 64. Championships: 32 players made up of
invitations to top 16 ranked players plus two wild cards. The remaining 14 places were taken from the
Qualifiers in descending order. If any of the invited players did not take up the offer then the next player/s
were taken from the qualification event. Some players who entered the Qualification event were not able to
play as it was oversubscribed.
Under 21 Singles: The top 14 were taken from the Under 21 ranking list plus two wild cards. 16 in total.
Doubles: If a player played in any of the singles events they could enter the doubles with either someone who
was also playing in the tournament or their usual partner. Again, as events were oversubscribed it meant some
players were not able to take part.
Para Events: Selected by British Para TTA, 12 players in total.
Can You Help?
The Commonwealth Table Tennis Federation website has disappeared along with all the information that was
held on it, photographs, reports, results etc. Investigations are being made to try and find what has happened
and if the material is recoverable. (No wonder I like paper, it seems to last a lot longer!)
If anyone has anything from any Commonwealth Championships or Commonwealth Games, it would be
greatly appreciated if you would get in touch so at least some of the material may be able to be preserved.
Contact details on the last page.
Diane
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